POSTED: 25 February 2022
Application Deadline: March 15, 2023
Supervised by: Rev. Dr. Michael Tino, Lead Ministry Team
Part Time: 19 hours per week
Starting Salary: $14,820/year ($15/hour)
Benefits: A shared professional expenses fund, a $1,000 annual health insurance stipend
Term of Employment: 2 years, beginning on or around July 1
To Apply: Please send cover letter indicating which portfolio(s) you are most interested in, resume, contact information for three references, and a sermon (sermon video preferred), to Jody Malloy, Executive Director, at jmalloy@clfuu.org. Please put “Learning Fellow” in the subject of your email.
The CLF Learning Fellow program is an innovative learning program in a unique congregation. It is a two-year fellowship with a collaborative ministry team, structured as an internship with opportunities for theological reflection and creativity. It is geared towards, but not limited to, religious professionals.
The Church of the Larger Fellowship is a congregation without walls or borders. We meet our 2,800 members through mail, phone, email, and social media. We like to say that our congregation is “always in beta,” meaning that we encourage experimentation and creativity and have a deep well of grace when things do not work as intended. Our staff members and learning fellows are not geographically bound. CLF membership includes almost 1,500 incarcerated Unitarian Universalists, whose interaction with our congregation is constricted by the dehumanizing systems of incarceration.
Learning Fellows who are candidates for ministerial fellowship may apply to have one year of their fellowship be your MFC-required internship. If this is the case for you, please let us know this in your cover letter, and describe how your call to the ministry aligns with the mission and ministries of CLF and why you would like to do your internship with CLF.
CLF Learning Fellows have one of four portfolios based on skills, gifts, interests, and learning needs. Portfolios are assigned annually in consultation with the Lead Ministry Team. Each Learning Fellow will gain basic competency in each of the four portfolios over the course of their two-year fellowship. All Learning Fellows will attend a biweekly theological reflection gathering, a monthly staff meeting, and a monthly caucus meeting for either white or BIPOC staff. All Learning Fellows will be invited to participate in our weekly worship services as schedules and interests permit, and required to lead four worship services per year. Learning fellows will be expected to teach and learn together.
Learning Fellow Portfolios:
In 2023, we are seeking two learning fellows, who will likely have the worship and pastoral care portfolios. Please indicate in your cover letter which portfolio(s) you are most interested in taking on.
Skills and qualifications:
For more information, visit clfuu.org, worship with us (clfuu.org/worship), or join the CLF Community Network for more context (community.clfuu.org).
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Quest for Meaning is a program of the Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF).
As a Unitarian Universalist congregation with no geographical boundary, the CLF creates global spiritual community, rooted in profound love, which cultivates wonder, imagination, and the courage to act.